Our 2016 Graduate Student Conference is titled “Unsettling Knowledge: Pushing Boundaries in Social Research”
Full program and details coming soon!
Check out the poster for our 2012 conference!
FULL PROGRAM
SHIFTING TIDES:
INTERROGATING SOCIAL PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE
March 31, 2012
9:30-5pm
Anthropology & Sociology building
|Opening & introductions | 9:30-10:00 |
| Session 1 | 10:00-12:00 |
Panel A: Community and Health
• Andrea Polonijo: Social Inequalities in Adolescent HPV Vaccination: A Test of Fundamental Cause Theory
• Lindsey Aitcheson: Community Solidarity and Well-Being after the Virginia Tech Shootings
• Heather Holroyd: Michel Foucault’s Techniques of Discipline: Prisons and Gated Communities as Functional Sites of Social Stratification
• Mo Ismailzail: Voodoo Capital
• Alina Shepherd: Changing Health in an Unstable World: Exploring the Impact of Housing Stability on Health for Residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Panel B: Race and Ethnicity
• Bard Suen: Chinese Modernist Restaurants
• Jakub Burkowicz: Whiteness Studies and the Reification of Race
• Amanda Cheong: Civic versus Ethnic Nationalist Citizenship Models and Immigrants’ Political Participation: A Look at Brunei and Canada
• Andrew Le: Creating the Ideal American?
| Lunch | 12:00-12:30 |
| Session 2 | 12:30-2:30 |
Panel A: Environment and Sustainability
• Rich Hutchings: Maritime Heritage, Sea Level Rise and the Social Practice of Resource Management
• Ana Elia Ramon Hidalgo: Examination of the relationships between social capital, gender issues, and the success of community-based ecotourism in Ghana, West Africa.
• Georgia Piggot: Untangling climate change information and planning needs in the Skeena region of British Columbia
• Kate Petrusa: New Middle Class Identities within the Local Food Movement:A Case Study of New Organic Farmers in BC
Panel B: Gender and Society
• Hélène Frohard-Dourlent: The production of asexuality in the mainstream media
• Sarah Diefendorf: After the Wedding Night: Abstinence Pledgers’ Post-Marital Views on Sex and Sexuality
• Rayka Kumru: Adult Fantasies and Sexualized Babies: Contradicting Messages in the Media Regarding Children’s Presence in Adult Arenas
• Larissa Slovin: Asking questions in Sexual Health Education Research with ‘Youth’
| Coffee Break | 2:30-2:45 |
|Session 3 | 2:45-4:15 |
Panel A: Social Change and Occupy
• Ben Levy: Patterns of Discourse at Occupy Vancouver: A Study of Dialogue amongst the Occupation’s General Assembly
• Anthony Meza-Wilson: Un-Occupy & Unsettle: Movement Education for Decolonization in the 99%
• Lilach Marom: Occupy Tel-Aviv – On Social struggle and politics in Israel
Panel B: International Questions
• Mali Bain: International Service Learning and Indigenous students
• Sonia Medel: Afro-Peruvian Action towards a New Radical Democracy
• Andrea Reisman: Refugee immigrants and shared intergenerational experiences
• Michaela Montaner: A proposed model for the evaluation of dissemination and engagement in the case of the United Nations’ first digitally crowd-sourced youth engagement strategy for HIV/AIDS
| Closing remarks | 4:15-5 |
| Social gathering at Mahoney and Sons| 5-7 |
Asking questions in Sexual Health Education Research with ‘Youth’
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